Prior to the Great War, a resident of the New York City neighborhood of Flatbush was abducted by Zetan aliens.Wall Street, a district of New York City, is mentioned throughout the Chinese-run People's Republic of America Radio broadcast.ĭuring the Great War, the city was affected by nuclear strikes. The event mandated power rationing throughout the city. While there was no explosion, the NYC incident coined the term 'hot summer' for a heat-related electrical overload on nuclear systems. In 2065, a nuclear reactor, struggling to power the city's population of seventeen million people, went supercritical for a period of about five minutes. New York was the location of the United Nations headquarters before it was disbanded on July 26, 2052.
